June: Silicon Lakes, FactoryFix, and the Digital Transformation Summit
Welcome to Silicon Lakes! The legacy of cornfields and flyover states taints the national perception of the modern Midwest. It’s led the area to be overlooked and under-capitalized by investors who paper the coasts with venture dollars. While the name “Silicon Prairie” attempts to characterize the tech innovation occurring in America’s heartland, it’s a broad […]
Putting the “Silicon” in Silicon Lakes
By Pradip Madan, Ryan Weber, and Rob Weber In the US, several tech ecosystems have become centers of tech innovation in addition to the much-vaunted Silicon Valley. Silicon Alley is in NYC; Austin is known as Silicon Hills; Silicon Mountain includes Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver and Fort Collins; Silicon Forest is in the […]
IoT 3.0
IoT and Analytics – Organizing the Industrial Internet Figure 1: The third revolution: IoT and Analytics. [Image credit: General Electric] The Evolution of IoT – Where we Came From The first generation of IoT systems (IoT 1.0) was built mostly with data collected from IP-based sensors by monitoring applications. Whether standalone or embedded […]